Around the Art Room

NAEA Leadership Conference - Santa Fe, NM July 24-28 2014

NAEA hosted a leadership conference this summer for leaders from each state art education association. Kelli and I represented Kentucky proudly. We participated in workshops, presentations, planning/working sessions and sightseeing of course! It was a beautiful setting for a workshop. We visited the Georgia O'Keefe museum, Native American Museum and Folk Art Museum. It is wonderful to share with other states what is going on in Kentucky....we are making a difference for teachers and students in Kentucky!

Adair county professional Development

I presented a professional development today titled "Leader In Me Murals, connections, standards, and processes". A big Thank You to Missi Carini for assisting with printing! Also applauding Phyllis Curry, Instructional supervisor for providing art PD training for Adair County Arts Educators!

Africa Photo Book

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Warren County Art Teacher PD

Today was the Warren County Art Teacher PD. Kelli Combs did a fantastic job of planning out the day and arranging for 2 wonderful Art Teachers and One Wonderful Artist to present! We heard first from Katrina Bullington of Ohio County about Setting up a choice based art room. Then we were led by Andee Rudloff a local Artist in the process of creating a Mobile. It was awesome that so many different designs were created. Another presenter, Leslyn Rushing also presented on setting up a choice based classroom and had lots of pictures of her classroom and unique ideas. We also looked at National Standards, PGES and discussed Program Review and Curriculum planning. We ended the day by actually all collaborating on a mural project for the art room at Bristow! Art Teachers love to paint and create and Teach others to do the same....yep....it is our passion!

Board Meeting Bowling Green KY. May 10, 2014

Saturday May 10th the KyAEA Board met at Greenwood High School for the Spring meeting. We began the day with an art making activity 'Playing with Clay" Some chose to weave their clay while others made a tile. Everyone enjoyed using the new extruder! We enjoyed some of Bowling Greens finest cuisine: Yuki Japanese Restaurant, Cambridge Market's famous cheese ring and those wonderful tea cookies and coffee cake from Riley's Bakery. Some of the topics of discussion for the board meeting included; Program Review, Career Pathways for the Arts, Arts Education Committees and our participation, The upcoming Fall Conference in Puducah - Miles gave a great report and then Roy had an inspiring video and powerpoint showing off our meeting place at Murry State's campus. We also discussed the recent All-State show sponsored by KyAEA and it's huge success. We welcomed Susan Lackey to the board as she would like to represent our retired members and Leslyn Rushing who will be unofficially our Elementary Representative. We also listened while each representative made reports about their region or division. Our organization is growing in membership. This is an exciting time to be a member of KyAEA!!